Category: Tax Dodging
ATO cracks down on crypto tax dodgers
A '28 days' countdown' starts for taxpayers to clarify their information on cryptocurrency. ... - Continue reading
US FATCA crackdown pushing demand for tax advice
As the US IRS cracks down on tax avoidance overseas with FATCA, the number of Treasury-licenced tax advisers with addresses outside of the US has jumped about 50% since 2016 according to figures from the agency. ... - Continue reading
Panama Papers and the ‘thin line’ for legal tax dodging
In the wake of the Panama Papers, thousands of taxpayers around the world received notices from their respective tax authorities seeking clarifications, issuing fines, or requesting payment of taxes dodged. ... - Continue reading
POGOs’ tax compliance improves
The tax compliance of online gaming operators and their service providers continue to show improvements every month amid the strict enforcement activities of the government, a tax official said. The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) initially reported that its preliminary income tax collection from Philippine offshore gaming operators (POGO) foreign… – Continue reading
Apple to challenge EU over record $14 billion tax dodging case
A panel of judges in Luxembourg on Tuesday will begin hearing arguments concerning the US tech giant Apple and the world’s biggest tax case. The EU General Court (EGC) will begin hearing the appeals lodged by Ireland and Apple against the EU tax ruling. It has to weigh up whether… – Continue reading
Dominguez orders BIR to shut down tax-dodging POGOs
'Those who don't pay or respond to your assessments, clamp them down,' says Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III ... - Continue reading
US-born British citizen launches crowdfunding campaign to stop FATCA
A US-born British citizen has started a crowdfunding campaign to stop HMRC sharing her personal information with the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) under the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). Law firm Mishcon de Reya has taken on the UK case for a client who alleges HMRC is… – Continue reading
Netherlands destination of choice for tax-dodging multinationals – report
Multinational companies channel more than $3 trillion a year in “phantom” foreign investment through the Netherlands in order to bring down their corporate tax bills, according to research published in the Financial Times. ... - Continue reading
New Zealand-Swiss tax agreement tightens net on avoidance
WELLINGTON, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) — Opportunities to dodge tax are shrinking with the completion of a new tax agreement between New Zealand and Switzerland, New Zealand’s Revenue Minister Stuart Nash said on Thursday. Nash and Swiss Ambassador to New Zealand David Vogelsanger signed documents to update the Double Tax Agreement… – Continue reading
Mauritius leaks latest reminder of how much we lose to tax havens
Mauritius leaks latest reminder of how much we lose to tax havensA report by Canadians for Tax Fairness Bay Street and Tax Havens revealed how over 90% of Canada’s largest corporations have subsidiaries in tax havens. Ottawa (06 Aug. 2019) — Last month Canadians for Tax Fairness reported that, while… – Continue reading
Thai restaurateurs’ $4.4m tax dodge alleged in hiding cash sales
Eleven Thai restaurateurs failed to declare $12 million cash income, drove luxury vehicles, had designer handbags and Rolex watches, prosecutors allege. At the High Court in Wellington on Monday, the 11 pleaded not guilty to 64 charges of evading or attempting to evade income and GST tax, filing false tax… – Continue reading
A perspective on tax amnesty
Tax amnesty is defines as “grant of an opportunity to a specific class of society to declare their undeclared assets by payment of a meagre amount of tax in addition to grant of immunity from default surcharge, penalties and prosecution”. It is introduced by the governments to fulfill the slogan… – Continue reading
Corporate Canada’s Pile of Cash in Offshore Tax Havens Has Hit $353 Billion For the First Time in History
Luxembourg, Barbados and Bermuda are three of Canada’s top five destinations in the world for corporate cash After exploding to record levels under Stephen Harper’s Conservative government, the amount of money Corporate Canada is funneling through offshore tax havens has hit a new all-time high. According to data newly released… – Continue reading
Ikea Being Investigated for Dodging Taxes of More than $1.1 Billion
According to a Green party report in the European Parliament, Ikea has been accused of tax dodging for as much as 1 billion euros or $1.1 billion in its taxes from 2009 to 2014. The political organization has accused the retailer of a large scale avoidance of taxes. In the… – Continue reading
Ireland recovers €572.6m in unpaid tax
The Irish taxman has managed to uncover and collect €572.6m in unpaid tax last year, an average of €1,000 per case according to the latest official figures. The data for 2018 shows Revenue officials “intervened” a total of 572,785 times during the year, with around 99% of taxpayers willingly handing… – Continue reading
KRA Reveals 6 Tricks Foreign Firms Use to Evade Tax
Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has revealed six tricks that multinational firms use to dodge paying tax. One of the schemes involves the firms exporting very cheaply and importing good very expensively. The authority reports that most firms also under-declare they pay to expatriates a move that reduces their profits and… – Continue reading
US multinationals dodge $180 billion in taxes on foreign profits per year
US multinational corporations are plundering the populations of the United States and the world to the tune of trillions of dollars by driving down and evading taxes on profits booked overseas. This is the conclusion that emerges from a recent study by University of California at Berkeley economist Gabriel Zucman… – Continue reading
OECD comes to PNG’s aid to chase tax dodgers
Internal Revenue Commission is now in partnership with an international auditing organisation to help tackle multinationals that are avoiding paying taxes, Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer Charles Abel, pictured, says. He said that Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), under its ‘tax inspectors without borders’ programme, would help IRC… – Continue reading
OECD report shines a light on how the wealthy dodge tax rules
On the list of countries operating CBI/RBI schemes, that the OECD feels have the potential to be used for tax dodging, are 2 tax havens that are popular with wealthy Canadians and large Canadian companies. These are Barbados and Panama. Ottawa (19 Oct. 2018) — New information from the Organization… – Continue reading
Tax amnesty ends for undeclared EU assets
The automatic exchange of information between Switzerland and the European Union came into effect on Monday. Owning property abroad without declaring it will no longer be possible. The deadline of September 30 ended the possibility of coming forward voluntarily, reported Swiss public television, RTS, on Sunday. For latecomers who have… – Continue reading
FBR to take action against tax dodgers from next week
KARACHI: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is all set to launch a major crackdown against individuals with concealed and untaxed offshore assets from next week as the revenue body bets on financial information shared under an international treaty, officials said on Friday. The officials said the FBR finalised the… – Continue reading
IRS bank secrecy program has little impact on tax compliance
The Internal Revenue Service’s Bank Secrecy Act program, in which it is supposed to safeguard against money laundering, is having only a minimal impact on tax compliance, according to a new report. The report, from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, noted that the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting… – Continue reading
Switzerland forced to share information on HSBC Indian clients
Switzerland’s Supreme Court has ordered the country’s authorities to turn over information on HSBC accounts with the Indian government regarding two of its citizens. Both clients had fought the release on the grounds that India’s request for assistance in a tax-dodging probe arose from stolen bank data. The case involved… – Continue reading
Swiss bank settles US tax evasion probe
The Zurich-based Neue Privat Bank (NPB) has paid $5 million (CHF5 million) fine to settle a criminal tax evasion investigation in the United States. NPB is one of a handful of so-called ‘category 1’ Swiss or Swiss-based bank branches that were still facing sanctions at the start of this year…. – Continue reading
Restriction on non-filer forex accountholders : SBP’s rules to clean up untaxed money from banking system
KARACHI: The central bank’s rules to restrict access of the non-filers to foreign currency accounts would gradually clean up untaxed money from the banking system, although it may hurt much-needed forex inflows in the short run, analysts and bankers said. Analysts said foreign currency accountholders have been facing intensifying scrutiny… – Continue reading
A global financial registry to fight tax evasion
If all countries have access to info about final beneficiaries, MNCs will not be able to fraudulently assign profits to tax havens Can you imagine how much governments all over the world could improve public services like education, healthcare and access to publicly provided clean drinking water and sanitation with… – Continue reading
Moon Orders Joint Probe Team on Offshore Tax Evasion
President Moon Jae-in has criticized tax evasion as an antisocial act that undermines social fairness and justice. He called on related agencies to form a joint investigation team and draft cooperative measures against attempts to evade tax through illegal concealment of assets overseas. Chairing a meeting with his top aides… – Continue reading
New UK Law May Shut Down the Biggest Tax Havens — Aside from the U.S.
The United Kingdom’s parliament has enacted a new law requiring its overseas territories — which include notorious tax havens like Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, and the British Virgin Islands — to start disclosing by 2020 the owners of corporations they register. This could shut down a huge amount of offshore… – Continue reading
Indonesia Goes Hi-Tech in Hunt for Tax Assets After Amnesty
Jakarta. Indonesia’s tax office plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to update its outdated technology to boost low tax compliance and raise revenue collection in Southeast Asia’s largest economy, the country’s tax chief told Reuters. Indonesia completed one of the world’s most successful tax amnesties in 2017, but… – Continue reading
IRS To Close Door On OVDP For Offshore Tax Dodgers
US taxpayers who have failed to declare their offshore money will lose the chance to confess to the Internal Revenue Service later this year. The IRS has announced that the Overseas Voluntary Disclosure Program will close on September 28. In the 10 years the OVDP has run, 56,000 taxpayers have… – Continue reading
VAIDS: Data, information-sharing will expose tax dodgers -experts
Tax defaulters and prospective taxpayers have been advised to seize the opportunity provided by the Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDS) or risk being exposed through data and a series of information-sharing agreements to which Nigeria is a signatory. The advice was given in Lagos yesterday at a one-day… – Continue reading
Cisco, Apple may shudder at regulatory change
Cisco Korea may have to share its key financial information starting next year as the government aggressively pushes to tackle the lack of transparency and tax-dodging practices by foreign enterprises, according to industry sources, Tuesday. “Though there still is much to be seen about the application of the revision, it… – Continue reading
Monitoring reduces tax dodging on Cyclades and at bars and eateries
The increased number of inspections at food service establishments this summer appear to have paid off in areas with high rates of tax dodging by enterprises. According to the Independent Authority for Public Revenue, bars and restaurants are no longer the worst offenders in terms of tax evasion. This unenviable… – Continue reading
HMRC probing Manchester United players over image rights tax dodges
HMRC is probing at least two Manchester United players over potential image rights tax dodging, as reported by the Daily Mail. The tax avoidance allegedly occurred under an agreement in the 2014-2015 season, where clubs could pay up to a fifth of their footballers’ total pay packages to ‘image rights’… – Continue reading
Labor tries to force hundreds of Australian companies to publish secret tax data
Bill would require private companies with more than $100m in turnover to publicly release tax information Six hundred of Australia’s biggest private companies could finally be forced to publish their high-level tax information, under a new push by Labor to repair a notorious piece of legislation. Labor will introduce a… – Continue reading
BHP Billiton defends its Singapore marketing hub, says tax dispute is not about ‘tax avoidance’
BHP has defended its Singapore marketing hub, where it is accused of routing profits, and says it is confident of its position in a $1 billion dispute with the Australian Taxation Office over the amount of taxes payable on the sale of Australian commodities to its Singapore marketing business. BHP’s… – Continue reading
Sao Paulo Property Secrecy Exposes Continuing Role of UK Tax Havens
A new report from Transparency International has revealed that more than US$2.7 billion worth of property in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s biggest city, is hidden behind shell companies, many of which have close links to the United Kingdom, which has many offshore tax havens in its overseas dependencies. Using newly released… – Continue reading
Sao Paulo Property Secrecy Exposes Continuing Role of UK Tax Havens
A new report from Transparency International has revealed that more than US$2.7 billion worth of property in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s biggest city, is hidden behind shell companies, many of which have close links to the United Kingdom, which has many offshore tax havens in its overseas dependencies. Using newly released… – Continue reading
KPMG offshore tax dodge a ‘facade’ designed to hide money, ex-client says
Accounting firm’s contracts with federal government questioned. A former client of the accounting giant KPMG says a tax dodge that involved wealthy people gifting their money to an offshore jurisdiction was a “facade” designed to hide money from the taxman. The client, who spoke to CBC’s the fifth estate and… – Continue reading
Property tax dodgers discovered
Thousands of properties in Cyprus that have not been declared to the Tax Department have been discovered during a revaluation exercise by the Department of Lands and Surveys according to the island’s Interior Minister. The general assessment of immovable property valuations formed part of the Memorandum of Understanding between Cyprus… – Continue reading
Ecuador Referendum Blazes Trail in Fight Against Tax Havens
If the referendum passes, all public servants and elected officials in Ecuador will be barred from holding wealth in offshore accounts. As Ecuador heads to the polls Sunday to elect a new president and National Assembly, deciding the fate of President Rafael Correa’s 10-year Citizens’ Revolution, the small South American… – Continue reading
The G77 will push for ‘tax justice’ through a UN tax body, says Ecuador’s foreign affairs minister
The creation of a new United Nations tax body to clamp down on tax dodging, which experts say could cost developing countries more than $200 billion a year in missed revenues, will be a key priority of the Group of 77 and China under Ecuadorian leadership, according to the country’s… – Continue reading
Amendment sought for greater transparency over UK’s offshore tax havens
A parliamentary drive to force greater transparency on the UK’s offshore tax havens is being led by former Commons spending watchdog chairwoman Dame Margaret Hodge and ex-international development secretary Andrew Mitchell. The pair, backed by scores of MPs from across the Commons and supported by an alliance of charities, are… – Continue reading
Government planning action to target multinationals over tax
The Government is planning unilateral action to crack down on tax dodging by multinational companies, including changing the law, amid growing concern about fairness. Revenue Minister Michael Woodhouse said proposals outlined in a cabinet discussion document tabled last month would see Inland Revenue properly armed to tackle the problem and… – Continue reading
